Resolution:

Tldr: nothing has changed

Thankyou to everyone who has contributed to this thread over the last couple of days. In keeping with the advice offered by some our more prominent members, we will hold off on this until there has been sufficient growth and it is discussed again. However, feel free to make use of the [email protected] community if you wish and make sure you subscribe to it if you don’t use our local feed.

I will keep this post stickied for a few days, the original proposal is below for historical purposes

Proposal

At this stage in the growth of this community I think we should begin to consider moving general news content into the dedicated [email protected] community as well as focusing political content onto [email protected] and environmental content in [email protected]. And use this community mostly for opinion pieces and discussing stuff which doesn’t necessarily fit into politics or the environment or any other community here.

To make things clearer here are some examples of posts I believe would belong in the news community:

These would belong in this community:

These would belong in the politics community:

These would belong in the politics community but would be well served by a cross-post to environment:

Why?

The main reasons why I want to do this are:

  1. Establishing a distinction in content now is easier from a moderation perspective while there are relatively few people posting news stories - if we do this now it will become clear to new users where content belongs making maintaining the distinction easy.
  2. It makes room in this community for longer-running discussions that people can easily keep track of so less arguments are repeated, since it can become difficult to keep track of many posts.
  3. Users can tune into what they want and out of what they don’t want to hear about. E.g. if you don’t want to know about politics you can completely ignore that community.

Other discussions

There has been a discussion of this issue in this post and in reply to this comment.

Why the long post?

I want to know what everyone’s opinion on the matter is and how this system could be improved or whether it’s worth pursuing at all.

  • Mountaineer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I agree with the division you propose, but I don’t think we’ve got the traffic here yet.
    It was a happy day for me when I could stop posting news articles in /r/AusGuns, but it was when we reached like 1500 subs and there was about a dozen random posts a day occurring.